Revealed: Best and worst Victorian IVF clinics
New data reveals which Victorian IVF clinics achieved the greatest and least success. Search full list of clinics and compare results.
Exclusive: Women seeking fertility treatment are more than three times more likely to have a baby if they seek help from the highest performing IVF clinic in Victoria, compared with the lowest performing clinic.
While women over 35 are more than two and half times more likely to have a baby at the top performing clinic in the state than at the lowest, according to newest figures from the Federal Government’s Your IVF Success website.
In Victoria, Newlife IVF in Box Hill, had the best success rate for the under 35s, with 62.5 per cent of embryo transfers resulting in a live birth, while Monash IVF Mildura had the lowest rate of success with 16.7 per cent. Mildura’s figures were based on small numbers which can skew results. The national average is 48 per cent.
In those aged 35 to 42, Monash IVF Geelong was the top performer, with a success rate 36.8 per cent and Monash IVF Sunshine in St Albans was the lowest with 12.8 per cent. The national average is 26 per cent.
Read more: See the best and worst IVF clinics in 2024 in Victoria here.
Our analysis found that Monash IVF clinics dominated the top ten performers in the state, while Genea did well nationally.
“The results show that IVF clinics that have invested in the quality of service and scientific innovation, consistently provide better outcomes,” Dr Myvanwy McIlveen, from Genea Medical Advisory Committee, said.
Independent University of NSW experts behind the data, looked at five performance measures.
From their results we produced two league tables of IVF success rates.
The first table shows Measure 1, the number of live births that resulted from the eggs (fresh or frozen) collected from women in 2020 that were fertilised and implanted as embryos in 2020 and 2021.
A second table shows Measure 5, a new measure introduced this year, looked at the number of pregnancies per treatment, using data from 2022.
Chief Scientific Officer at Monash IVF Prof Deirdre Zander-Fox said Measure 5 confirmed an embryo had been implanted and there was a sac, but did not confirm there was a foetal heartbeat.
“This measure gives results from 2022, while the other measures are from 2020 or 2021,” Prof Zander-Fox said. “Technology is moving so fast, so this measure is more relevant for couples.”
Looking at the national picture, Genea Liverpool in Sydney’s south west had the best birthrates in the country for the under 35s, with 65.8 per cent of embryo implant procedures producing a baby, while Monash IVF Mildura in Victoria had the lowest.
In older women, those aged 35 to 42, Queensland Fertility Group Mackay, Queensland, had the best results in the country, with 41.5 per cent of those who had an embryo implanted having a baby, compared with IVF Australia – Wollongong, NSW, where 11 per cent achieved a live birth.
New mum Marilyn Sendeckyj was 34 when she and her partner Jesse Higginson were diagnosed with unexplained fertility and chose Monash IVF Clayton in Melbourne based on their doctor’s recommendation and the results on YourIVFsuccess website.
“IVF is so taxing mentally and physically and when you’re investing that much, every percentage point counts,” Ms Sendeckyj, now 35, said.
The software consultant said she got pregnant on the first embryo transfer, producing Reynold, born a month ago, and they have three frozen embryos if they wanted to try for a second.
Meanwhile, Gita Smith, 35, and her husband Thomas, 38, from Maroubra, Sydney, chose Monash IVF Bondi based on different reasons; because it was close to home and the “warm feel” they got from the staff.
She said gynaecologist Dr Jenny Cook was like her “guardian angel” who encouraged her to try a third round of IVF with their last frozen embryo, just weeks after she underwent a second endometriosis operation.
“I was mentally and physically exhausted, but she said the time was now if I wanted the best chance of success and she was right,” Ms Smith said.
“James wouldn’t be here without her encouragement.”
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Originally published as Revealed: Best and worst Victorian IVF clinics
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